Iron tailings dam collapse that killed 19 people and contaminated 500 miles of the Rio Doce all the way to the Atlantic Ocean — Brazil s worst environmental disaster — is a warning to the nation and the world of what can happen when mining profits trump environmental protection and public safety say experts
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Get Price10 Lands Damaged as a Result of Uranium Ore Mining Operations in the Russian Federation V P Karamushka and V V Ostroborodov All Russian Research Design and Surveying Institute of Industrial Technology VNIPIPT The operations of uranium ore mining and processing enterprises inevitably contaminate the environment with solid liquid and
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